Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ostensible snag was merely the selection of a third "neutral" member of the three-man regency council. Faure picked Brigadier General Si Kettani ben Hamou. Kettani declined to accept until he consulted Juin and Brigadier General Jean Lecomte, Koenig's chief of staff, and an old North African friend of Juin's. Lecomte told General Kettani to refuse Faure's appointment...
...romance between Artist Morgan and Hildegarde strikes its first snag when he is horrified to discover her posing in the nude for an art class: its second, when Morgan's mother begs Hildegarde not to ruin her son by marrying him. Hildegarde, who has been using Svengali's hypnotism as a sort of aspirin treatment for her headaches, is so unnerved by this classic gambit that she falls completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse...
WINDFALL-PROFITS PROBE on FHA housing projects has hit a snag. The U.S. Court of Appeals upset a one-year jail sentence for ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde Powell, who okayed projects that netted builders some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits. Though Powell refused to tell a federal grand jury how he banked an average $27,000 yearly from 1945 to 1953 (on a salary of only $12,000), the Appellate Court said the Government prosecutor "outrageously misrepresented" the facts in getting his conviction, ordered Powell acquitted in the name of "common justice...
...when the contract went to the Argentine Congress it struck a political snag. Objections by the opposition Radicals came as no surprise. But some ultranationalistic Peronistas now joined in with the cry of "entreguismo" (literally "deliveryism"), meaning that Perón is giving away precious resources. The anti-contract arguments were mostly nonsense. Nevertheless, the Chamber of Deputies Industry Committee insisted last week that the contract would have to be modified in Argentina's favor...
...Spotting Snags. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. ("Tommy") Thompson was quick to spot the snag. Keeping Article 35 in the treaty, he pointed out, would give the Soviet Union a permanent legal pretext for reviving its claims on Austria, should Moscow ever decide to welsh on its deal with Raab. Washington, London and Paris supported Thompson's stand. John Foster Dulles made it plain that he would not fly to Vienna to sign the Austrian treaty unless Ilyichev yielded. The result was a compromise: Article 35 was left in the treaty, but a note was attached, binding the Russians...